Laboreal (Dec 2006)
Mudanças no sector dos transportes em Portugal: que caminhos para a actividade de serviço público e para a preservação do interesse geral?
Abstract
Since the early 1990s, the passenger road transportation sector in Portugal has been through great changes in its setting. The effected changes aim mainly at minimizing the losses related to oscillations in the use of public transport, due to the increasing traffic jams in urban centres and to the consequent increase in the use of private vehicles. The focus on drivers´ activity led us to the development of two case studies, in four public and private companies. Its results reinforce the need to debate, on one hand, the options underlying the implemented changes and, on the other hand, the criteria associated with the delivery of public service. Finally, it is in the analysis of public service activity and in the strategies developed there-in, that we find important contributions in terms of regulation modes to fit general interest in what concerns citizens´ mobility.
